The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-06-16
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Eght thousand people are fed daily
by one New York restaurant.
1t is exactly 10Y years since the first
Sunday newspaper was published. !
Sidney Woollett, the elocutionist, is
said to have memorized more than
three hundred thousand verses Of
poetry.
Baron Nordenskjold, the explorer.
is meditating Swedish Antarctic ex-
pedition with the assistance of King
Oscar.
Henry Richner, of Vail, Iowa,
weigs 270 pounds, is seven feet four
and three-fourths inches high, and is.
only twenty-five years old.
In 1866 10000 barrels of rice were
raised in this country, and in 1886
425,OO0 barrels. South Carolina pro-
duces more than any other state /
Millionaire Corcoran, who does more
for Washington than all the other mil
honaires Jumped together, pays taxes
on $9, LOG, 900 worth of property.
There is more or less money in En-
glish politics for some people, Mr.
Schnadhorst having just been present.
ed with f1O,OO0 in recognition of his
oCINICcS " Iut LlU0Tdl party.
Mrs. Magnusson, the Icelandic lady
who is now lecturing in England on
the habits and home-life of her COM
patriots, claims that Lett Eriksson was
the real discoverer of America.
The normal weight of the fashion,
able dinner or reception dress is from
thirty to forty-nine pounds, while the
tailOr-made dress varies from ten to-
nineteen pounds. And yet woman is,
called the weaker vessel.
Gen. Charles P. Stone, the sanauu
Union ofhcer and the engineer under
whose supervision the Bartholdi statue
was erected, who died recently in New
York, left his family in straitened cir
cumstances, and an appeal is made to
the public in their behalf.
Some of the dealers in fish in WASH
ington market, New York city, have
bottles of cod-liver oil suspended in
front of their stalls, and generally
underneath in a tank a big live cod
"gasping in horror, as if at the sight
of the essence of some ancestors
liver"
Experiments having shown that guns
have once more triumphed over armor,
the governments of England, France,
and Russia are actively laying in a
supply of steel prOfectiles, of which
great quantities have been ordered.
Steel projectiles will pierce the thickest
armOr atiOat.
Referring to the addition of bath
rooms to the luXuries of railroad
travel, the Buffalo Commercial COM
mends the improvement, but thinks
lit might be very awkward, though,
for a man in collision or the upset.
ting of a ear to be caught in the usual
bath-tub undress."
The Duke of Argyle, father of the
Marquis of Lorne and Lord Colin
Campbell, is small man, with big
head and the face of a mud-earter.
He has a mass. of bushy white hair,
his shirt is always frayed at the collar,
he invariably wears a rusty frock coat,
and trousers five inches too short.
In book called Courts of Europe"
recently published in Berlin, the
author says that il is the Marquis of
Lorne who fiirts and not Louise. The
story hitherto told presents the oppo-
site view. The Berlin writer says
Louise is consumed with jealousy be-
cause of Lornes attentions to other
ladies.
James Blaikie, of st. Paul, has 8
very fine cat's-eye stone which was
once the property of George III. of
England. The ring came into the
possession of Blaikies family by legal
process, together with star and gar
ter set with the same stones, and at
one time the property of the English
monarch.
The famous Irish steeple-ehaser Lib
orator, who won the Grand National
in 1879, and who has started in the
same race nearly every year since.
then, is now doing farm work. When
geldings become unfit for racing their
fall is a great one. In this country
Checkmate, once great racer, is used
as one of an omnibus team, and Pa
role, the hero of two continents, is
used as saddle-horse. !
Dan Rice, the once celebrated clown,
who made and lost several large for
tunes in the circus ring, now lives in
Cincinnati, old and poor, and depend
ent on the charity of friends for liv-
ing. Rice's first appearance in public
was as pugilist, and in 1928 the
Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned
to witness a boxing contest between
George Kensett and Dan Rice.
Cocoanut-growers say that each tree
in a grove produces one nut day, or
365 in one year. Owing to the great
height of the trees it is impossible to
pick the nuts, and they are allowed to
hang till they fall. The natives gather
| them up and carry them to the husk-
ing-machines, where the nuts are strip
ped of their thick outside shells. A
nut is most delicious just after it has
| dropped from the trees.
Henry Ray, of Gilmer, Tex, has
| discovered the secret of the quaifs
being able to hide so well. He was
walking in field when a covey of
birds was flushed. One alighted near
him, and the moment it did SO seized
| a dead oak leaf, crouched to the
ground, and threw the leaf over its
| back, so that it was hidden completely
from view. Mr.. Ray said that he had
to go and turn over the leaf before he
| could believe the evidence of his own
eyes.
| The Staunton, Va, VindicdtOr re-
lates the case of a citizen of that place
named Joshua Slower, who was re-
Gently sent to the penitentiary for six
years by the Staunton hustlings court
for stealing hot tlat-iron from off a
stove" 1t adds: There would seem
to be something radically wrong in a
law that demands One-fifth of the
average lifetime of "a man for the
larceny of a trifie, for which boy
would get off with switching"
Mime. Caroline Popp has just COM
pleted her fiftieth year as editress of
the chief Liberal paper in Flanders
the journal de Bruges. She entered
upon her office the 4th of April, 1887,
and has remained at the post (not
without many difficulties) for the last
/ fifty years. Thus her editOrship is
only seven years younger than the
independence of Belgium as State.
Mime. Popp has earned some distine-
ton in her native land as novelist
and story-teller. Her Nathalie" and
her Legends and Tales of Flanders"
have been translated into German.
The South Australian Registers re-
turns in connection with the wheat